]> http://www.healthedia.com/tags/genetic-engineering Blog Articles Tagged with 'genetic-engineering' at http://www.healthedia.com en http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/924528?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering This new study is along the lines of vaccine-producing bananas. One of the best uses of genetic engineering of plants is producing rare proteins with medical use in larger quantities. Interleukin-12 is one of those proteins that our bodies produce in... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/924528?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:49:51 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/blogging-baby/920294?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering Filed under: Babies, Kids 5-7, Pregnancy & birth, Medical conditions(Click the photo to read more Amazing Rescue Stories)It had to be devastating -- to learn that their son had a deadly genetic disease destined to cut his life short after just a deca... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/blogging-baby/920294?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:00:00 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/blogging-baby/919968?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering Filed under: Babies, Kids 5-7, Pregnancy & birth, Medical conditionsIt had to be devastating -- to learn that their son had a deadly genetic disease destined to cut his life short after just a decade. But then science reared its helpful head and offe... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/blogging-baby/919968?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:35:51 -0400 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/891859?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering The Hebrew University of Jerusalem scientists and others have revealed for the first time the electronic structure of single DNA molecules. In their work, the researchers were able to decode the electronic structure of DNA and to understand how the... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/891859?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:19:49 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/888822?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering Junk DNA could hold the key to the evolution of complex organisms . Vertebrates, animals that possess a backbone, are the most anatomically and genetically complex of all organisms, but explaining how they achieved this complexity has perple... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/888822?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:49:03 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/887808?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering Scientists from Newcastle University, UK led by Professor Patrick Chinnery, have created an embryo with three separate parents. The team believe the technique could help to eradicate a whole class of hereditary diseases, including some forms of ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/887808?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:29:20 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/886301?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering Micrograph images of synthetic Mycoplasma genitalium J Craig Venter and his team at the J Craig Venter Institute Rockville, Md. Venter continue to expand our horizons of what constitutes life. They have built, from scratch, a synthetic chromoso... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/886301?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:52:47 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/885599?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering Much has been written about Genetically Modified (GM) foods in Genetics and Health and many readers have made some perceptive and well argued cases for and against the introduction of GM foods into the food chain as seen in the article Genetically Mo... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/885599?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:31:53 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/885370?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering The EU funded GEN2PHEN project plans to internationally orchestrate the electronic gathering and use of data that show how gene sequences ( genotypes ) contribute to individual differences in disease, drug response, and other characteristics ( ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/885370?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:57:30 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/885222?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering Early embryos yield stem cells,(photo courtesy of BBC news www.bbc.co.uk/news) The Uk s fertility regulator Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has given the green light to two teams of scientists for the creation of hybrid human-... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/885222?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:31:31 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/885101?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering (Merkel Skin Cancer - courtesy of DermIS, www.dermis.net)US researchers have recently discovered a new virus they believe may be linked to a rare but extremely lethal type of skin cancer. Merkel cell carcinoma mostly afflicts the elderly and people w... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/885101?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering Sun, 20 Jan 2008 07:01:35 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/purple-medical-blog/884458?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering BIOTECHNOLOGY OF CELLULOSIC ETHANOL VIDEO OF BIOTECHNOLOGY BACTERIA MAKE FUEL FROM GARBAGE G.M. SAYS COSKATA ETHANOL PROCESS WORKSScientists have developed bacteria that can consume garbage including old tires and other waste, and create a fuel, cell... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/purple-medical-blog/884458?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:13:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/883879?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering Grace at Kids Health Notes and Kristina at Autism Vox have both written about the gene CNTNAP2 being unequivocally implicated in Type 1 Autism.In her article CNTNAP2, an autism susceptibility gene which I highly recommend, Kristina writes a persona... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/883879?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:28:43 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/882941?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering Male Down s Syndrome with trisome at chromosome 21People with Down s Syndrome are less likey to get solid tumor cancers, research from Johns Hopkins University has revealed.Up to 95% of Down s syndrome cases are caused by trisomy 21 ,... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/882941?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:13:30 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/882472?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering (Stylized rendering of a cross section of the AIDS virus)New HIV infections are averaging around 2.5m per annum worldwide, and growing.Most people infected with HIV produce antibodies against the virus within several weeks following infection, th... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/882472?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:12:56 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/881774?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering Further to my article on Fragile X Syndrome the BBC health website has posted this article: Genetic engineering has been used to alleviate symptoms Fragile X in mice, which is a leading cause of inherited learning difficulties and autism. There is ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/881774?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:51:54 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/880069?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering My team and I at Opaldia are reeling with the amazing world-wide press we have received for partnering and supporting the development and distribution of DiaGenic s breast cancer early detection test, through our national network of breast c... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/880069?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering Sat, 15 Dec 2007 06:40:36 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/879528?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering There is increasing evidence that there is a genetic link between schizophrenia and cancer, providing a surprising possible scientific explanation for lower rates of cancer among patients with schizophrenia - despite having poor diets and high rates ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/879528?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:12:11 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/879180?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering A sickle cell compared with with a normal red blood cellFurther to my blog on retrieving stem cells from skin cells , scientists in Alabama and Massachusetts have reporteda key next step when they used the stem cell technique to give mice with sic... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/879180?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:24:25 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/879181?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering There s a widely held belief that Humans have slowed, if not come to a grinding halt in terms of evolution. Not so says Professor Henry Harpending, an author of a study from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, US. His study findings ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/879181?rsstype=tag&tag=genetic-engineering Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:45:57 -0500